Pleasant Grove Review | 1951-11-02 | Page 6 | Religious Students Protest Segregation

u Religious Students Protest Segregation CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Student religious groups at the University of North Carolina adopted resolutions protesting the decision of university officials to segregate Negro students at football games. The Baptist student union, the Wesley foundation and the Presbyterian Pres-byterian student association, with a combined membership of some 250 students, expressed hope that the university administration would reverse re-verse its segregation ruling. The Baptist group said it was restating re-stating Southern Baptist convention conven-tion principles in opposition to racial prejudice. "The recent ruling segregating some members of our student body is in violation of these principles," the group said, "and we pledge ourselves our-selves to support every effort on the part of the administration to bring the university policies In line with these historic and inviolable foundations foun-dations of our Christian democracy." democ-racy." A number of other student groups, including the Y. W. C. A., the Y.M.C.A., and the Inter-Faith Council, were scheduled to consider similar resolutions of protest.